FrankT said:
Ryan McAvoy said:
FrankT said:
Ryan McAvoy said:
Oh and George, Ric McCallum and the rest of the crew thought TPM was cr*p too (Not just OT fans). Anybody got a link to that footage of them in stunned and horrified silence for a few seconds after the first private screening?
If that's true, how come they didn't just throw it out and do it over again? Especially since they had it planned out from the start?
Found it (The aftermath of the first screening is at 54.50)...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8sBsnYNucM
My moments are: George dejectedly saying "I may have gone too far" and "It boggles the mind", Ben Burtt disecting some of the things wrong with it and the best is the shot of Ric McCallum at 54.41 looking like he's going to burst into tears. Then them all standing around in the kitchen with George saying it can't be fixed LOL.
Of course, that was just the rough cut... still...
I've never forgotten the moment that whoever-it-was stood on stage, said "This is awesome", sending the crowd wild just as the film started... I can't even begin to imagine the disappointment that followed.
It was McCallum in that same video I linked to. The video ends/fades-out with everybody at the premiere cheering the SW logo and just before reading the crawl. Peter Serafinowicz (Darth Maul) talks about the moment at the premiere just after that video ends, in this podcast (About 25 minutes in)...
https://soundcloud.com/britishcomedyguide/richard-herring-lst-podcast-12-peter-serafinowicz
...when everyone started reading all the nonsense about trade disputes etc and realising something was very, very wrong.